The Wild Here and Now
The Wild Here and Now by Susan Charkes, published by Arboreality Press on October 28, 2013, is a collection of essays that explores the presence of nature in everyday life. In this 170-page work, Charkes employs a poetic and humorous style to reveal the unexpected layers of significance found in ordinary encounters with the natural world. She invites readers to observe the wildlife that exists right in front of them, from a squirrel in a tree cavity to a mayfly on a car hood, encouraging a fresh perspective on the familiar surroundings.
Readers will find that The Wild Here and Now emphasizes the importance of attentive observation and the beauty of nature that often goes unnoticed. Charkes writes from her suburban Philadelphia vantage point, sharing her love for place through eloquent storytelling and accessible language. Each essay serves as a different lens through which to view the hidden wild, inspiring readers to engage with their environment in a more profound way and to appreciate the richness of nature just outside their doors.
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In The Wild Here and Now Susan Charkes writes about nature where you least expect to find it: right in front of you. Charkes is a perceptive observer, a superb storyteller, and a gifted translator of science into accessible language. She writes poetically, lyrically, even humorously, but always eloquently, to reveal unexpected layers of significance in everyday encounters.
Nature in The Wild Here and Now is not something you go somewhere else to discover. It’s all around you: a squirrel in a tree cavity, a mayfly on the hood of a car, a turkey vulture overhead, a gnat under the collar. Each essay supplies a fresh perspective, a different magnifying lens, and inspires the reader to experience the hidden wild in a new way: to bring the background into the foreground.
Writing from her vantage point in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Charkes conveys a love for place that comes from devoted attention to the familiar. A poet and a writer of nonfiction, including several books on the outdoors, Charkes has a supple style, conveying the same quality of surprise that she finds in nature.
The Wild Here and Now inspires the reader to see, hear and feel nature with newly sharpened senses: to discover a new world, right outside the front door.
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